Construction of coverings or housings for the steam-cylinders of pumping-engines



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CONSTRUCTION OF GOVERINGS 0E HOUSINGS FOR THE STEAM CYLINDERS 0F PUMPING ENGINES.

No. 313,479. Patented Mar. 10, 1885.

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CONSTRUCTION OF COVERINGS R HOUSINGS FOR THE STEAM-CYLINDERS OF PUiVlPlNG-ENGlNES.

.SPECIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,479, dated March 10, 1885.

Application filed June 16, 1884. (No model.)

ing-Engines, of which improvement the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

In the larger steam pumpingengines it is. usual to cover the steam cylinder or cylinders, as the case may be, with a housing of some colored wood, which, nicely finished, gives a clean and elegant appearance to the machine. My invention relates to the construction of these housings, and to an adaptation of certain valves of the engine to conform thereto.

Hitherto the various pieces of which these housings are composed have been brought to gether and fastened in a permanent way with numerous screws, so that to remove and re-' place the coveringnecessary in case of accident or need of repairsrequires much time and labor. To save this expense and delay is the object of my invention, and I accomplish it by constructing the house in sec tions joined together and held firmly in place by devices which I will now describe, whereby the promptest possible removal andreplacement are secured.

Figure lot the drawings is an end'elevation of a housing as applied; Fig. 2, aportion ofa side elevation thereof; Fig. 3, a top View of same; Fig. 4, a central longitudinal section of a portion of same and of the throttle-valveof the engine, and Fig. 5 presents detail views of parts.

The engine here indicated, Fig. 1, is a double one. The general form of the housing is obvious from Figs. 1, 2, and 3. The sides of the upper part or roof A, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, are inclined, the end, as seen in Fig. 2, is vertical, and the top flat. A coping, a,

of suitable breadth, and mitered at the corners, rests on the walls of the lower part or base, B, and on this coping is mounted the roof, which is kept firmly in its place by of the coping a are attached still other dowel-pins. At each corner of the structure the side of the base is locked to the end, the

corner-piece to these, and the coping to all by a single and instant operation. The device employed is obvious from the detailed drawings, Fig. 5. To the inside of the corner-piece b is attached the metallic tie, 0, (one or more,) an opening for which is provided in the slots 61 and d in the side 6 and end 6, and to the inside of these last are attached the ties t and i, duly placed with reference to the tie c, as shown, and to the upper side ties, 0 and 0, placed as shown. It is plain that when the several parts of the base are brought into position, the perforations in the several ties will be in one line, and it will only be necessary to pass the rod 8 through them downward, as seen at O, and the lock will be complete and firm.

The sides and ends of the roof A, its corner-piece, and coping, are looked in the same Way as above described, except that the rod 8, when duly placed, will be inclined in conformityto the inclination of the roof.

It is desirable that the hand-wheels and stuffing-boxes of several necessary valves of the engine should be outside the housing, and my invention further consists in the construction and arrangement plainly shown in Fig. 4, where the neck of the valve-shell is extended outward a little beyond the end section of the housing, as seen at m n, and is there enlarged, as shown, to a diameter slightly exceeding that of the handle h, and the hole in the housing being of the same diameter allows the handle to pass freely through .it as the section is brought to its place, and is yet fitted to a nice finish by the enlargement referred to.

TVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In coverings or housings for steam-cylinders of pnmpingengines, the combination, with a side and end or two sides, as e and e, of the corner-piece I), the tie or ties c, the slots (Z and d, the ties i and i, and the rod 8, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the ties 0 and 0, attached to the coping a or other superimposed part, with the side and end or two sides, as c and e, the corner-piece b, the tie or ties c, the box are allowed to pass so as to be accessible slots d and d, the ties i and i, and the rod .9, on the outside, all substantially as and for the 10 substantially as and for the purpose described. purpose described.

3. The extended neck'm of the valve-shell 5 provided, as shown, with an enlargement at CHARLES DEANE' n, so gaged and adjusted as to fill the hole in \Vitnesses: the housing through which, when the latter WV. J. COOPER, is set up, the hand-wheel h and the stufling- L. E. BELLoWs. 

